Hello snapcrafters, As you might have noticed, snap packages that are including app-indicators won't generally show the proper icon in unity(7, as the 8 has not support for them at all yet) [see https://pad.lv/1600136]. The main reasons for this issue was that apps generally try to refer to custom indicator icons saving them in /tmp (for QT apps, and snap's /tmp is something not accessible from outside) or in a prefix that doesn't take in account the $SNAP path (including a custom indicator-theme-path).
Few days ago I finalized some tweaks for libappindicator (gtk2/gtk3) sni-qt (qt4) and appmenu-qt5 (qt5) which should allow packaging of many apps without thinking too much about whether they're running in snap or not. You can see some examples here: - https://github.com/3v1n0/indicators-examples-snaps Basically, until the various 'desktop-<toolkit>' parts (which will happen once [1] will hit the parts server and xenial archives) won't include this, you only have to add 'indicator-<toolkit>' (defined in [2]) to the 'after' entry of your part. This should work in most of cases. However there are still couple of known issues: 1) Gtk apps using libappindicator aren't working with snapd 2.17 because of some missing confinement policies (fixed in [3], included in 2.18), but if you want to use your snap confined in the mean time, you can just apply this: wget -qO- https://github.com/jdstrand/snapd/commit/95768199111.patch | \ sudo patch \ /var/lib/snapd/apparmor/profiles/snap.<your-snap>.<your-command> sudo apparmor_parser -r \ /var/lib/snapd/apparmor/profiles/snap.<your-snap>.<your-command> 2) Pure Qt5 apps that use the native Qt upstream dbus-systray implementation (such as Telegram), saves the icon in /tmp, so while we'd propose something else upstream, you'd probably need a different workaround. See [4] for more infos. If there are some edge cases we don't cover, please get in touch with me and we'll try to figure out a solution. Happy snapcrafting of indicators! [1] https://github.com/snapcore/snapcraft/commit/6c012194b [2] https://github.com/3v1n0/appindicators-snapcraft-parts [3] https://github.com/jdstrand/snapd/commit/95768199111796 [4] https://bugs.launchpad.net/snappy/+bug/1600136/comments/5 -- Snapcraft mailing list [email protected] Modify settings or unsubscribe at: https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/snapcraft
